Teachers ready for schools to recruit for 2019

Around 550 overseas teachers are already
screened and ready for principals to hire - to cover
vacancies in our primary and secondary schools for next
year.

"Our recruitment drive to attract teachers to New
Zealand is already helping to cover the extra 850 primary
and secondary teachers we need for 2019," says Ellen
MacGregor-Reid, the Ministry of Education’s Deputy
Secretary for Early Learning and Student
Achievement.

"These overseas teachers are supplementing
our locally trained workforce, while we continue to
encourage more New Zealanders to train or return to
teaching, and overseas Kiwis to come home to our
classrooms," she says.

"Our recruiters have received
around 3000 applications from overseas teachers, with
hundreds currently making their way through the recruitment
pipeline. This is great news for principals as we support
them to ensure they have a full staff for the start of term
one."

The overseas campaign is one of a range of
recruitment initiatives to add to our pool of 70,000
teachers across 2,500 state or state-integrated primary and
secondary schools.

Ms MacGregor-Reid says "every overseas
teacher will meet all the existing standards here for
teaching qualifications, registration with the Teaching
Council, and immigration requirements. Principals only need
to pick up the phone to our education recruiters, and they
will match available teachers to vacancies.

"Although the
number of vacancies being registered by principals is so far
low, we’re delighted that 100 job offers have already been
made to teachers coming from overseas. These include
teachers from the United Kingdom, South Africa, the United
States and Canada who will be working throughout the New
Zealand - including primary teachers in low decile schools,
and commerce and technology teachers for secondary schools
in South Canterbury and South Auckland."

"We have an even
spread of primary and secondary teachers available, and most
are happy to work in Auckland - which is one area where we
know there are shortages."

"These teachers will receive
targeted support to transition to New Zealand. We’re
working with the Teaching Council to strengthen training in
our curriculum and the culturally responsive practices
needed to work here."

Meanwhile there are a couple of days
to go for schools to apply for a National Beginning Teacher
Induction Grant of $10,000 to help train or mentor a
graduate teacher for next year. Priority will be given to
low decile schools; those that are isolated or in locations
experiencing teacher shortages; Māori-medium kura; and
shortage subjects at secondary level, such as science,
technology, engineering, mathematics and te reo Māori.

Ms
MacGregor-Reid says nearly 100 applications have been
received for the 230 new grants available, and she urges
principals to register interest before applications close on
November 16.

"We are keen to see more than the current
level of 80 percent of teaching graduates getting jobs in
schools - so these new teachers can make a start on their
careers and contribute to our education workforce of the
future."

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